Decisions on Board of Fisheries proposals will be the main items of discussion  at the Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 16th at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building on Kalifornsky Beach Road in Kenai.

A Kenai man confessed to killing a woman on Sunday according to Kenai Police Chief Dave Ross.

Decisions on Board of Fisheries proposals will be the main items of discussion at the 2023 Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee public meeting scheduled for February, 14th at the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve.

The trio of bills will fight overdose related deaths, protect victims of sex trafficking, prosecute traffickers, and tighten up the sex offender registry statutes.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, (R-Alaska), a senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reintroduced S.175, which would codify the revocation of five Public Land Orders (PLOs), undoing the Biden Administration’s efforts to unfairly halt access to federal public lands in Alaska.

During the meetings, the Federal Subsistence Board recognizes the customary and traditional use of all fish in the Kenai Peninsula District waters north of and including the Kenai River drainage within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and the Chugach National Forest by residents of Moose Pass.

The Alaska Division of Agriculture announced that eligible farmers will receive 40% of what they paid to feed their livestock under Round 1 of the Food Security Cost Assistance program.

The Soldotna Chamber of Commerce announced Wednesday, February 8th, that Maddy McElrea as the new Executive Director.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved a salary compensation package and salary adjustment procedures for the position of Borough Mayor, setting in motion changes to the Mayor’s salary which has remained constant since 2011.